THE PREY OF THE TERRIBLE

(Isaiah 49:25)




By Tessa Harvey

        "You're in," said the school lady. She wrinkled her nose. When Rabbit was with him, he could get him to wrinkle his nose too. Rabbit liked Day Care. The sandpit was their favourite place. But a big, dark-haired girl threw Rabbit very high. He fell outside the fence. The worker came over.
    "Come here, David," but he gripped the fence tighter. She looked and said, "Oh, Rabbit has flown away." She went to get Rabbit and held him very carefully.
    Rabbit was very happy to come back. He wrinkled his nose again. "You're in," said the boy quietly.
    When it was dark, his mum came. "Stop wetting your pants. You are too big to do that." She thought for a while. "Look, Rabbit doesn't do that and he is smaller than you."
    It was raining. They went fast to get Abbie, then faster and faster to get home. The road was swirling by the car. Abbie cried. The boy and Rabbit were very afraid. Big lights blinded mum. The car twisted away.

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